Neoliberal Urban Environmentalism and the Adaptive City: Towards a Critical Urban Theory and Climate Change
Neoliberal Urban Environmentalism and the Adaptive City: Towards a Critical Urban Theory and Climate Change
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10.1177/0042098013480965
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发表时间：
2013-04
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4.7
通讯作者：
M. Whitehead
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作者：
M. Whitehead
本文探讨了批判城市理论对围绕气候变化的知识和政治辩论的潜在贡献。虽然它是可能的，以确定一个新兴的链的关键询问城市在促进气候变化减缓和适应战略的作用，本文认为，关键的城市理论对气候变化研究的全面影响尚未实现。在本文中，批判城市理论被理解为一种城市方法（或一套方法），它承认城市政治和政策的偶然形式，同时断言，城市化远非是一个不可避免的和政治中立的过程，而是社会权力交叉制度的表达。本文利用批判性城市理论作为分析新兴城市气候适应战略的基础。这里提出的分析断言，当代的适应政策是由市场导向的治理，加强私有化和城市环境保护主义的新自由主义的做法。本文揭示了新自由主义城市气候变化适应战略中固有的一些关键矛盾，并提出了如何制定更渐进的适应制度。
This paper explores the potential contribution of critical urban theory to the intellectual and political debates surrounding climate change. While it is possible to identify an emerging strand of critical enquiry concerning the role of cities in facilitating climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, this paper argues that the full implications of critical urban theory to climate change studies have yet to be realised. In this paper, critical urban theory is understood as an approach (or set of approaches) to the city that recognises the contingent form of urban politics and policy, while asserting that, far from being an inevitable and politically neutral process, urbanisation is an expression of intersecting regimes of social power. This paper utilises critical urban theory as a basis for analysing emerging urban climate adaptation strategies. The analysis presented here asserts that contemporary adaptation policies are being framed by neoliberal practices of market-oriented governance, enhanced privatisation and urban environmental entrepreneurialism. This paper exposes some of the key contradictions that are inherent within neoliberalised urban climate change adaptation strategies and suggests how it might be possible to develop more progressive adaptation regimes.